A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday halted all actions and activities of the embattled Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin and the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers from November 21, 2014 till date, including the purported commencement of impeachment proceeding and notice alleging misconduct against the Stare Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose and his Deputy, Dr Olusola Eleka. Justice E. Chukwu gave the ruling on an Exparte Application in Suit Number FHC/ABJ/CS/361/15 filed by the factional Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Dele Olugbemi and six other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers.…
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The Presidential Inauguration Planning Committee, co-chaired by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim and a former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timpre Sylva, has outlined a week long activities for the inauguration of the President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). The duo made this known on Thursday while speaking with State House correspondents at the end of the second meeting of the committee held inside the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Anyim listed the programmes that have been outlined for the inauguration to include a Juma’at Service, an interdenominational church service, inauguration dinner, the swearing-in…
As Muhammadu Buhari awaits his May 29 inauguration, the All Progressives Congress (APC) says work has started in earnest by the president-elect and his vice, to solve the problems facing the country. According to a statement by the party, the incoming government will focus on poverty eradication, creation of jobs among other crucial areas needing the attention of the government. “Chief among these programmes include plans to curb poverty by creating jobs and setting up social welfare schemes that cater to the poorest Nigerians. One of these schemes is a Conditional Cash Transfer that pays N5000 – N7500 monthly to…
Senate President, David Mark, Thursday, paid the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari a courtesy visit at the All Progressives Congress (APC) headquarters in Abuja. Mark won the Benue South senatorial district seat for the fifth time in the March 28 election under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). However, with the All Progressives Congress having won majority of the seats in the Senate, Mark will have to be a floor member of the Senate in the 8th National Assembly. Senator Bukola Saraki, who is a serving senator is being touted to replace Mark. Wile his President Goodluck Jonathan of the…
Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed has described the removal of former Inspector General of Police Suleiman Abba as a political vendetta carried out to massage the political ego of President Goodluck Jonathan and his grieving party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), having lost the elections to the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to him, the sack of the police officer was not only ill-timed but carried out without any justifiable reasons. He admitted that Abba did not impress him as a professional police officer given his role in the National Assembly imbroglio of last year. However, he noted that…
A part of this report came up sometime last week and now it’s back in the news again! Unconfirmed reports claim that Nollywood actress, Lilian Esoro has called off her engagement to Triple MG boss Ubi Franklin. It’s said that she called off the engagement after coming back from their London trip together. The engagement was reportedly called off because of concerns of domestic abuse. Another site, Sugar Daily, also writes that Lilian Esoro was through with the relationship because she found out that Ubi Franklin had reportedly impregnated another woman. Efforts to get the engagement proved abortive as Lilian…
Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, on Thursday threw his weight behind the current Minority leader in the Senate, George Akume’s bid to lead the 8th National Assembly when inaugurated in June. According to Suswam, since there was nobody from the state vying for the position, he was supporting Akume, the immediate past governor of the state, to emerge victorious. He stated this at the State House, Makurdi, on Thursday, while donating eight brand new Toyota Prado SUVs to the Governor-Elect, Chief Samuel Ortom; his wife; the Deputy Governor-Elect, Benson Abounu, and his wife, as part of the peaceful transition arrangement.…
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has summoned an emergency meeting of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) for Abuja on May 15 – two weeks before the expiration of her husband, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure. In a notice sent to members, Mrs. Jonathan said the meeting was summoned to prevent a situation where the executive, which she has been leading since 2000, will leave office unceremoniously. It was not clear yesterday how much the meeting, which a source described as a jamboree, will cost Nigerian tax payers and how it will be financed. Two meetings – of the Executive…
Wow, this is some serious science fiction stuff. Ghanaian actress and new mother , Nadia Buari shared the photo above on her Instagram page and everyone had something to say. It’s very clear for everyone to see the almost identical resemblance to Tonto Dikeh. Nadia Buari captioned the photo: – There is definitely something special about having a cousin. For me, having u is like having another sibling in the family. Of all the cousins in the world, I am lucky to have the best – YOU. Happy birthday to my silly and crazy beautiful cousin @floxyjo.. Love u to…
Since the details of Chris Brown’s love child came to light, the superstar singer has tried as much as possible to play the role of father; but he has a very full plate. Chris Brown is definitely mad after his daughter’s step-dad, King Ba allegedly referred to him as a ‘sperm donor’ in a cryptic post on his Instagram. King posted a message on his Instagram from Someecards on April 22, see photo below: – Although Brown’s name isn’t mentioned in the text, its some one obvious to whom he is talking to. Despite the ‘Loyal’ singer being the biological father to…
She is among the several Nigerian celebrities who has a child and is single, and she seems to be having issues doing the single-parenting thing! Monalisa Chinda has revealed details about her failed marriage and more in a recent interview with topcelebritiesng. When asked about what she regret most about her past: Chinda said “One thing I regret most is the fact that I am divorced. Where I come from I am the first daughter. I am from a royal family. It has never been on record that the first daughter will walk out of her matrimonial home. “But it…
It’s a Thursday and it’s officially the throwback day for people to show off their pictures from way back.. Famous Nollywood actress Ini Edo turned a year older today and she decided to mark it with an old photo of her. She shared the picture of an event that took place during her teen years, when she graced the graduation ceremony of her mother. Ini captioned the picture, “Lol…mummy’s graduation.some many years ago,God used this woman who’s by far de most amazing woman I’ve ever met to bring me into this complexed world.ur prayers n encouragement has brought me thus…
Famous Nigerian comedian, BasketMouth is known for his very outspoken nature and how he constantly disses other celebrities in the pretense of joking. He has now taken shots at the current Minister of Petroleum in Nigeria, Diezani Alison-Madueke regarding the current controversy surrounding her office. “In a closed society where everybody is guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the final sin is stupidity” he wrote on his Instagram post. The Minister of Petroleum has been embroiled in the saga of the missing money from the coffers of the NNPC which amounts to $20m. Diezani…
President Goodluck Jonathan will not contest the 2019 presidential election, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has said. He explained that instead, the party would field a strong Hausa/Fulani candidate to run against the Muhammadu Buhari, who is the president-elect, in 2019. The former Transport Minister made this known Wednesday in Lagos. He described the outgoing President as a leader, who had done his best in uplifting the nation’s democracy, adding that Nigeria would forever remember Jonathan as a committed leader, who kept the nation as one despite several challenges. Mr. Babatope…
The Ekiti State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), has described Governor Ayo Fayose as a hypocrite. The APC, in a statement by Wole Olujobi, media aide of the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, said: “We can now see the cowardly act of a hypocrite who has made impunity a religion in governance and is now afraid of alleged impunity by APC. He wants to do unto others what he would not want to be done unto him! “A man who wants peace is calling the opposition ‘irritants’. What a way of seeking reconciliation! Whatever issue…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the newly-appointed Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to approach his new task with a high level of professionalism while shunning the kind of crass partisanship that has dragged key national institutions of state, especially the police, into the murky waters of politics. In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party advised Mr. Arase to learn from the fate that befell his predecessors, who under their watch, turned the police into the enforcement arm of the ruling party, thus allowing the institution…
The Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has dissociated himself from the “ugly” incident in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state, where residents woke up on Thursday morning to the mysterious sights of caskets in various parts of the town. The caskets were placed with a warning that whoever refuses to vote the PDP flag bearer in the April 25 supplementary election in the state will die. A statement signed by his personal assistant, Enyinnaya Appolos, said Mr. Ikpeazu not only dissociated himself from the dastardly act, he also attributed the development to…
The apex northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, on Wednesday denied the allegation that it worked against the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan during the March 28 presidential election. President Jonathan, who was the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, lost to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressives Congress. Mr. Buhari was endorsed for the presidential election by the ACF the same way other socio-political and cultural organizations, such as the South-South Peoples Assembly, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Afenifere, among others, endorsed Mr. Jonathan. The Forum, which was reacting to a statement credited to National Chairman of All Progressive Grand…
Governor of Ondo State Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, on Wednesday in Abuja assured eager Nigerians that the cause of the strange disease and its accompanying deaths in Ode-Irele Local Government Area of the state would be out soon. He stressed that what had been largely described as “mysterious diseases” was not epidemic as was initially assumed. Mimiko made this known in a chat with journalists in Abuja shortly after he received a letter of recognition presented to him by the National Universities Commission on the proposed Ondo State University of Medical Science. He said, “Let me tell you what we have…
The Department of State Service, DSS, has arrested the Head of Operations in the Imo State office of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and about 15 others, for allegedly tampering with result sheets and thumb-printing ballot papers. The Peoples Democratic Party chairman in the state, Chief Nnamdi Anyaechie, who made this known on Wednesday, in Owerri, the state capital, called on the leadership of INEC to not only make the names of the suspects public, but also prosecute them to serve as a deterrent to others. “A little while ago, I received information from a member-elect of our great party…